Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: another attempt at x86 pagetable unification
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 19:59:14 EST
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, testing for bisectability requires compiling each patch as its
> applied, which gets painful for something like this where any change
> will rebuild the world. And dealing with patch conflicts caused by
> changing early patches in the series is never fun.
that's true. The 'rej' tool helps alot though. ( Plus a distcc cluster
that builds a distro kernel in 45-50 seconds from scratch ;)
> But I'm refactoring the series into smaller pieces now. Knowing what
> the outcome should look like, and there the pitfalls are, makes it
> fairly easy.
ok, great :-)
Ingo
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